New Vacation Policy

kcoffey

I am wanting to get ides on how to implement a new vacation policy. Our employees are all currently receiving their vacation hours January 1st of each year. We are wanting to change it to receiving vacation time at your annual anniversary date of each year. I have our new policy written, but am not sure how to implement it, especially considering our employees just received their vacation hours as of January 1 for 2007. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Irie

Perhaps make it effective on January 1, 2008 and give them notice well in advance that this policy change will go into effect on that date.

marc

Tracking is quite a bit more complex under an anniversary date system. Does your payroll software have the capability to track it?

kcoffey

Yes, it does track anniversary dates. That is another important detail to keep in mind. Thanks.

njjel

I would never use the anniversary date. Way too complicated to track. We use a biweekly accrual system which works very well. That way everyone at the same level earns the same amount of PTO at the same time.

ACU Frank

I've never used anything but anniversary dates. What are some advantages of using a different system?

Dutch2

Our system is set on the calendar year. I would really like to change it to anniversary dates. Our biggest opportunity is our vacation time does not carry over from one year to the next. You either use in during the calandar year or you lose it as of January 1 of the next year. As you have no doubt guessed this makes for a lot of last minute vacations in November and December with eveyone trying to get in all their vacation days for the year. I realize that this is just poor planning by our Supervisors, but our Supervisors are some of the worst in not taking vacation during the year and waiting until year end.

marc

We also do the calendar year thing. We allow up to 40 hours to roll-over from one year to the next, with discretion to allow more if circumstances call for it.